Section: News & Summaries

AC Milan have paid tribute to Mauro Tassotti after the coach left the club after 36 years of service to become Andriy Shevchenko`s assistant with Ukraine`s national team, ESPN reports.Tassotti has assisted Carlo Ancelotti and Massimiliano Allegri among others at the Rossoneri. The 56-year-old is set to be joined by Andrea Maldera after Milan`s...

Austrian Ambassador to Ukraine Hermine Poppeller proposed to deepen cooperation between the two countries on assets stolen by former members of the Ukrainian government under fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych, according to Ukraine Today.Hermine Poppeller met with Ukraine`s Deputy Prosecutor General Yevhen Yenin, Ukraine`s Prosecutor General...

Russian President Vladimir Putin again held a telephone conversation with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to Ukraine Today siting TASS news agency.”The talks focused on the Ukrainian crisis,” French government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said, Ukraine Today reports.”The meeting of the Council of...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a bill to reform the judicial system and status of judges into law, according to the presidential press service.”The task of the law is to implement revised constitutional principles of justice to make the judicial branch of power independent and non-politicized, tighten their responsibility to...

Ukraine, whose trade links with Russia have been severed by a two-year insurgency in its eastern regions, will strive to offset that loss by becoming a transit hub for shipments from the Persian Gulf, Asia, China to the Scandinavian countries and the Baltics, according to Bloomberg.The government wants to create ”comfort and confidence” for...

The Ukrainian government has instructed the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine (SFS) to resolve all issues related to value added tax (VAT) refunds within one month.Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman issued the order to SFS Head Roman Nasirov during a meeting in which the authorities met with representatives of the business community,...

Russian energy giant Gazprom has completed the liquidation of Swiss gas trader RosUkrEnergo, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.The process began in 2014, the news agency wrote, referring to the company`s information.RosUkrEnergo has been excluded from the list of affiliated entities of Russia`s Gazprom, which was prepared for June 30,...

Ukraine`s Finance Ministry will soon submit a draft law on the elimination of the tax police in Ukraine, as well as set out clear criteria to allow tax authorities to transfer documents related to financial investigations to law enforcement agencies on exceptional occasions, according to Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk.”We are agreeing with...

Theresa May will take over the job of British prime minister from David Cameron on Wednesday and form a government with the monumental tasks of extricating Britain from the European Union and uniting a fractured nation, Reuters reported. May, who has been interior minister for six years and is seen by her supporters as a safe pair of hands to...

One Ukrainian soldier was killed and four were wounded in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, in the past 24 hours, according to a presidential spokesman for ATO issues.”In the past 24 hours, one Ukrainian serviceman was killed in fighting, another four were wounded,” Presidential Administration speaker for ATO issues...